Christmas - Part One

This year we spent Christmas at home with the boys.  We had a wonderful Christmas Eve with them and had such a blast!  Nothing all that different from any other day except it just had this air of specialness to it.  It's kind of hard to describe.  Nothing really different but somehow a unique day.

It was beautiful outside so after dinner we took a walk with the boys and checked out the Christmas lights on the houses in our neighborhood.  The boys had a blast having Daddy pulling them in their sleds as you can see...



We woke up in our house Christmas morning.  The boys opened up a DVD and a DVD player so we hit the road and headed to Grandma and Grandpa's.  We were fewer this year than most but it was lots of fun.  All six of the cousins played so well together and I was lucky enough to have the older ones helping out with the boys.  I think they love being able to help and having my boys copy every silly thing they do.  My sister-in-laws girls are so good and lots of fun!  The boys got lots of fun toys and played with all of them before going to sleep that night.  They had a hard time falling asleep but it was the first night at Grandma and Grandpa's in a long time and there were lots of people and lots of noises.

The boys jumping on bean bag chairs with their cousins:

Opening a present:

The family eating dinner:

We got snowed in (well freezing rain actually) and stayed an extra night.  We were alone at the house with Grandma and Grandpa and the boys sleep like angels.  They went to bed without a peep and only truly woke up at 7:30 in the morning.  We are back on track and we're not even at home!  We are home now and quite happy to be.  As much fun as we had, there's still no place like home!

The boys' Christmas with Nana, Papa and Aunt Kiki was postponned from today to Friday due to the nasty weather and road conditions.  It's too bad but I guess it's to be expected since it is winter after all...